Question Time reforms are worthy but won't solve the problem of a broken political culture
- Written by Gregory Melleuish, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
Schoolchildren are told democracy, especially Australian parliamentary democracy, is a great and glorious thing. Question Time, in which our elected representatives ask questions of the government of the day, is meant to be emblematic of all that is best in that democracy.
Australian parliamentary democracy is a form of the Westminster system,...